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Thomas Gataker B.D. his vindication of the annotations by him published upon these words,…
Thomas Gataker B.D. his vindication of the annotations by him published upon these words, Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven, for the heathen are dismayed at them, Jer. 10. 2 against the scurrilous aspersions of that grand impostor Mr. William Lillie : as also against the various expositions of two of his advocates, Mr. John Swan, and another by him cited, but not named : together with the annotations themselves : wherein the pretended grounds of judiciary astrology, and the Scripture-proofs produced for it are discussed and refuted.Thomas Gataker B.D. his vindication of the annotations by him published upon these words, Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signes of heaven, for the heathen are dismayed at them, Jer. 10. 2 against the scurrilous aspersions of that grand imposter Mr. William Lillie : as also against the various expositions of two of his advocates, Mr. John Swan, and another by him cited, but not named : together with the annotations themselvs : wherein the pretended grounds of judiciary astrologie, and the Scripture-proofes produced for it are discussed and refuted.
London: printed by J.L. for Richard Thrayle, 1653
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3. Mars, saith Mr. Swan, works thus in such places, Where the state of things is apt to kindle into a combustion. and doth not Mars by his innate power, and powerful operation over mens genitures from their very birth design and dispose them thereunto?1 Or doth not your Client Mr. Lily tell us that the former Eclipse of the Moon that we had the last year, being in the beginning of Libra a turbulent and evil sign, and its greatest obscuration falling near or fully in the seventh House, is without doubt the forerunner of many tumults and desperate designs, that shall terminate in the blood of those that contrived them? and that without any such proviso, where a state is apt so to kindle? Yea may we not well say, that these mens predictions are fit matter to kindle men into combustions? Since that from a multitude of instances it may be made evident, that by such courses, people have ben incited and animated unto insurrections and rebellions, that which Agrippa sometime minded Augustus of.2
3. Mars, saith Mr. Swan, works thus in such places, Where the state of things is apt to kindle into a combustion. and doth not Mars by his innate power, and powerful operation over mens genitures from their very birth design and dispose them thereunto?1 Or doth not your Client Mr. Lilie tel us that the former Eclipse of the Moon that we had the last year, being in the begining of Libra a turbulent and evil signe, and its greatest obscuration falling near or fully in the seventh House, is without doubt the forerunner of many tumults and desperate designes, that shall terminate in the blood of those that contrived them? and that without any such proviso, where a state is apt so to kindle? Yea may we not wel say, that these mens predictions ar fit matter to kindle men into combustions? Since that from a multitude of instances it may be made evident, that by such courses, people have ben incited and animated unto insurrections and rebellions, that which Agrippa sometime minded Augustus of.2
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